What can we learn from U-Multirank 2015?
Nic Mitchell The new global university rankings recently released by the European Commission funded U-Multirank were largely ignored by the…
Nic Mitchell
Why April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month
When you’ve just found out you’ve got bowel cancer, I’m not sure you really want to be told…
Discovering you have got cancer
Towards the end of 2014, I discovered I had joined the growing number of people in the UK…
Beating bowel cancer – introducing ‘Cancer-talk’
You are never quite prepared for being told you have cancer. There is still, what shall we call…
Should we take U-Multirank seriously?
With U-Multirank’s second world university rankings out on March 30, the European University Association, or EUA, has been…
Tackling Europe’s student mobility brain drain
Student mobility is a key issue across European higher education. But it is often seen as a way…
A tale of two international university rankings
How can two rankings looking at the international orientation of universities be so far apart? The question was…
Mixed reaction to new postgrad student loans
Postgraduate students at English universities are to get a helping hand from the Government in the form of…
UK universities relying on transnational recruitment
Many English universities are becoming increasingly reliant on recruiting international students through transnational education, or TNE, programmes delivered…
Universities should encourge more staff mobility
Staff mobility needs to be given the same kind of attention as is paid to student mobility if…